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which he laid siege to on 28 August with a large army and fourteen siege engines. The town was captured on 9 or 10 October and the citadel surrendered on 12 or 21 October after Zengi swore to spare the lives of the garrison. Zengi broke his oath and they were all brutally massacred, the governor was
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